It is difficult to describe facial skin color through a solid color as it varies from region to region. In this article, the authors utilized image analysis to identify the facial color representative region. A total of 1052 female images from Humanae project were selected as a solid color was generated for each image as their representative skin colors by the photographer. Using the open CV-based libraries, such as EOS of Surrey Face Models and DeepFace, 3448 facial landmarks together with gender and race information were detected. For an illustrative and intuitive analysis, they then re-defined 27 visually important sub-regions to cluster the landmarks. The 27 sub-region colors for each image were finally derived and recorded in
Yuchun Yan, Hayan Choi, Hyeon-Jeong Suk, "Exploring the Facial Color Representative Regions Using the Humanae Images" in Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, 2020, pp 060406-1 - 060406-7, https://doi.org/10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2020.64.6.060406